Rebels on the Air: An Alternative History of Radio in America

by Jesse Walker

Book Overview

Explores the alternative radio that refuses to succumb to the big business that monopolizes the airwaves

Boring DJs who never shut up, and who don't even pick their own records. The same hits, over and over. A constant stream of annoying commercials. How did radio get so dull?

Not by accident, contends journalist and historian Jesse Walker. For decades, government and big business have colluded to monopolize the airwaves,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814793819
• ISBN13: 9780814793817
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.7" x 9.3"